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		<title>My Mini City</title>
		<link>http://www.ruelicke.net/2008/01/07/my-mini-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine told and showed me this interesting browser game. It is called &#8220;MyMiniCity&#8221; and it is very easy to play, if you can actually say &#8220;playing&#8221;: First of all you create your own mini city (or not, if you prefer helping a friend&#8230;) My mini city is called Coruin City, not a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dantebusquets/414031446/" title="My Mini City"><img src="http://www.ruelicke.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/my-mini-city.jpg" alt="My Mini City" title="My Mini City" class="alignleft" /></a><span class="c_letter">A</span> friend of mine told and showed me this <a href="http://coruin.myminicity.com/">interesting browser game</a>.</p>
<p><span class="c_letter">I</span>t is called &#8220;<a href="http://www.myminicity.com/">MyMiniCity</a>&#8221; and it is very easy to play, if you can actually say &#8220;playing&#8221;:<br />
First of all you create your own mini city (or not, if you prefer helping a friend&#8230;)<br />
My mini city is called <a href="http://coruin.myminicity.com/">Coruin City</a>, not a fancy name but I have to live with it. After you created your city you visit it each day once. You can also bug your friends or fellow bloggers to visit the page each day.</p>
<p><span class="c_letter">W</span>hen you or someone else visits the page, a new citizen will &#8220;move&#8221; to your city, making it grow. Once a certain amount of citizen are living in your mini city, you get more options to increase parts of your mini city. These options are:</p>
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<li><a href="http://coruin.myminicity.com/">Increase population</a></li>
<li><a href="http://coruin.myminicity.com/ind">Increase industry</a> (50 citizens)</li>
<li>Improve the transport network</li>
<li>Increase security</li>
<li>Improve environment</li>
<li>Increase business</li>
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<p><span class="c_letter">T</span>he first option exists right from the beginning and since <a href="http://coruin.myminicity.com/">my mini city</a> is still young I can&#8217;t tell when I will unlock the next option. Once I unlock the next option(s), I&#8217;ll update this post.</p>
<p><span class="c_letter">I</span> hope I woke your interest for this neat browser game. Let me know if you also <a href="http://www.myminicity.com">start a mini city</a> or if you decided to help me with <a href="http://coruin.myminicity.com/">my mini city</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Update 2008-01-30:</strong> I finally unlocked the &#8220;Increase Industry&#8221; option with 50 citizens</p>
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		<title>Block Firefox&#8230;because its users are thieves&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruelicke.net/2007/08/19/dont-block-firefox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I discovered this uh&#8230;funny article at webmaster-source.com about a guy who runs a website called whyfirefoxisblocked.com. The guy at &#8220;whyisfirefoxblocked.com&#8221; claim that Firefox users are thieves if they use AdblockPlus or other ways to block the advertisement on a website. Matt from webmaster-source.com outlines a few holes in their arguments about why blocking Firefox is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I discovered this uh&#8230;funny article at <a href="http://www.webmaster-source.com">webmaster-source.com</a> about a guy who runs a website called <a href="http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/">whyfirefoxisblocked.com</a>.</p>
<p>The guy at &#8220;whyisfirefoxblocked.com&#8221; claim that Firefox users are thieves if they use <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865">AdblockPlus</a> or other ways to block the advertisement on a website.</p>
<p>Matt from webmaster-source.com outlines a few <a href="http://www.webmaster-source.com/2007/08/18/dont-block-firefox/">holes in their arguments about why blocking Firefox is necessary</a>. After reading it I couldn&#8217;t stop laughing, as you can see in <a href="http://www.webmaster-source.com/2007/08/18/dont-block-firefox/#comment-78">my comment</a>.</p>
<p>If you really decide to block Firefox because your visitors don&#8217;t want to see the Ads on your page, maybe you should think about a few things:<br />
1. you Ads are annoying (or wasting bandwith for the user)<br />
2. the market share of Firefox keeps on growing, you will hurt yourself on the long run<br />
3. not everyone uses an Adblocker on Firefox, those who do, usually block annoying ads<br />
4. maybe you better download and use <a href="http://www.firefox.com">Firefox</a> instead of Internet Explorer<br />
5. if you rely on Advertisement to earn money&#8230;maybe you should rethink your business plan&#8230;</p>
<p>I believe if you fix point 1 and 5 you will see that you get one or more clicks on the Ads&#8230;although I doubt that because although I see many ads I rarely click them&#8230;</p>
<p><del datetime="2007-08-19T22:55:18+00:00">Note #1: <a href="http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/">whyfirefoxisblocked.com</a> is currently down with a 509 &#8211; Bandwith Limit Exceeded. I assume a bunch of Firefox users were visiting it, using a <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59">User Agent Switcher Add-On</a>&#8230;</del></p>
<p>Note #2: @the owner of whyfirefoxisblocked.com: Would be nice if you would add a comments option to your website&#8230;wait, you will get spammed by the blocked Firefox users, aight? Well, feel free to reply on here if you are brave enough&#8230;</p>
<p><ins datetime="2007-08-20T16:20:05+00:00">Update:</ins> I just found a page countering whyfirefoxisblocked.com, so feel free to visit <a href="http://whyisfirefoxblocked.com/">whyisfirefoxblocked.com</a> <img src='http://www.ruelicke.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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